Yes, yes, yes. And in various ways. There's the tragedy of every one of the those characters' storylines, and then there's the amazingness and complexities of the relationships and the way the dialogue zings and zings and makes little squees of delight go off in two dozen different parts of your brain. And everything. I re-watched it when I came back from the VK con and really, I was the kind of wide-eyed and hinged-jawed at how even more incredible Connor was the second time around. And this is ME talking here.
Baltar and Joaquin Phoenix don't gut me; I'm just amazed by how often they seem to be able to call up tears. VK too. They get this shiny eyed look.
The thing for me is not the ability to call up tears, but the sincerity with which they're able to cry. There's nothing artificial in the way that VK and Phoenix and the guy who plays Baltar cry. They all have this thing where their whole faces crumple up and their shoulder hunch inward and their whole bodies sort of shake and the *reaility* of those moments gets me every time.
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Yes, yes, yes. And in various ways. There's the tragedy of every one of the those characters' storylines, and then there's the amazingness and complexities of the relationships and the way the dialogue zings and zings and makes little squees of delight go off in two dozen different parts of your brain. And everything. I re-watched it when I came back from the VK con and really, I was the kind of wide-eyed and hinged-jawed at how even more incredible Connor was the second time around. And this is ME talking here.
Baltar and Joaquin Phoenix don't gut me; I'm just amazed by how often they seem to be able to call up tears. VK too. They get this shiny eyed look.
The thing for me is not the ability to call up tears, but the sincerity with which they're able to cry. There's nothing artificial in the way that VK and Phoenix and the guy who plays Baltar cry. They all have this thing where their whole faces crumple up and their shoulder hunch inward and their whole bodies sort of shake and the *reaility* of those moments gets me every time.